Chapter 650 Hitting children is not a good idea.
On the carriage back to the Li family home, Li San Niang held Lu Zhu'er in her arms and let her sit on her lap, thinking about how to explain to Lu Zhu'er that she had hit Wang Ziheng.
Before Li San Niang could figure out what to say, Lu Zhu'er's cry of "Mother" brought her back to her senses.
"Is the dewdrop thirsty?"
When Qiu Xiang heard Li San Niang say this, she was about to open the hidden compartment in the carriage to take out the teapot and pour water for Lu Zhu'er, but Lu Zhu'er shook her head and her soft voice rang out in the carriage.
“Mother, Pearl is not thirsty.”
"Mother, Zhu'er knows that you didn't hit Father on purpose. Father said something bad, so you hit him."
Li San Niang's eyes widened. She really hadn't expected that such a small child like Lu Zhu'er could speak so logically.
Li Erxiong, sitting opposite Li Sanniang, became interested and asked Luzhu'er, "How does Luzhu'er know that your father is not good?"
Dewdrop said quite naturally, "Mother told me long ago that she would not remarry, and that I would not have a younger brother. Mother only has me as her son, and I will stay by Mother's side for the rest of my life."
Even Brother Li, who was sitting on the carriage shaft outside, was quite surprised to hear what Lu Zhu'er said. Li San Niang explained calmly, "Lu Zhu'er asked me before when I would give birth to Xiao Qi Lang after my sister-in-law gave birth to Xiao Liu Lang."
I told her I couldn't have Xiao Qilang, and that she would be my only child from now on.
Surprisingly, she remembered it.
"Mother?"
"Um?"
After calling out to Li San Niang, Lu Zhu'er gestured for Li San Niang to lower her head. After Li San Niang lowered her head, Lu Zhu'er whispered in Li San Niang's ear, "Brother said Father is bad. Brother said Father hit him."
After saying this, Dewdrop frowned, shook her head, and said firmly, "Mother, it's not good to hit children."
"Ha ha ha ha."
"Haha, haha, my Dewdrop is really smart."
Come here, let your second uncle hold you. Tell him what your younger brother said.
Helpless, Li San Niang had no choice but to let Li Er Xiong take Lu Zhu'er from her arms and let her sit down.
Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang exchanged a glance and then burst out laughing.
The reason why Lu Zhu'er said "It's not good to hit children" was because Li Er's second brother saw that Xiao Wulang was too naughty. One day, when Li Er's brother was in the yard, he took a broom and pretended to hit Xiao Wulang. Li's mother disagreed and stepped forward to block Xiao Wulang. She said to Li Er's brother: "I have never laid a finger on you three siblings from childhood to adulthood!"
When your older brother was young, he was hot-tempered and got into fights in the street. When he came home, I beat him up.
During those two years you were at the academy, how much trouble did you cause for me and your father?
Your father and I spend all our time apologizing to people, but have we ever come home and hit you?
Hitting children is wrong. No respectable family would hit their child.
Put down the broom and talk to the child properly.
Li Erxiong coaxed Luzhu'er into telling her what she had heard the child say when she was sitting with that young man at the Wang family.
Only then did everyone realize that although the young man had food and clothes to wear in the Wang family, he did not live a good life there. Wang Ziheng would often curse at him and sometimes even kick him.
"Taking your anger out on a mere child is hardly the behavior of a true man."
Seeing that Lu Zhu'er hadn't suffered any psychological trauma from slapping Wang Ziheng, Li San Niang finally relaxed. However, she also warned herself that she must hold back next time. Even if she really couldn't help it, she should have Qiu Xiang take Lu Zhu'er away so that Lu Zhu'er wouldn't see it.
When the group returned to the Li family home, Li's mother was waiting at the door. As soon as Lu Zhu got out of the car, Li's mother hugged her.
Li's mother kissed the dewdrop for a while before letting her go down to play with Xiao Wulang.
Then Li's mother asked about Li San Niang and the others' visit to the Wang family that day.
When Li's mother heard Wang Ziheng say, "I can marry you again," a surge of anger shot through her.
“I didn’t wait for him to finish speaking before I slapped him hard… Luckily, Dewdrop wasn’t scared; she still remembered what her mother had said.”
“It’s not good to hit children, haha, haha, Mother, Dewdrop is really raised by Mother, Dewdrop remembers everything Mother said.”
Upon hearing this, Li's mother was no longer angry.
All she could think about was Dewdrop, but when she turned around and saw Dewdrop happily playing around the tree with Kogoro and their four dogs, her worries eased considerably.
"Alright, don't be angry. We only have to go there four times a year. Just bear with it, it'll pass."
If you do this again next time, be sure not to let the dewdrop see it.
However, Wang Dalang is a smart man; he should be able to keep Wang Ziheng in check. With Wang Dalang keeping him in check, Wang Ziheng shouldn't misbehave.
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The third day of the first lunar month, Minor Snow.
Today is the day for married daughters to return to their parents' home. However, because Sister-in-law Li is in her second month of maternity leave, she did not go back to the Jiang family with Brother Li this time, but stayed at the Li family's home instead.
However, since Sister-in-law Li couldn't go back, Brother Li and Brother Li still went out with the gifts prepared by their mother.
The relationship between in-laws should naturally be maintained; otherwise, how can they be called in-laws?
Li Erxiong and Li Ersao got up early, since the Wu family lived in Wujia Village outside the city, which was quite far away, unlike Li Dasao's maternal family, the Jiang family, which lived in Chang'an City.
Li's mother helped load all the prepared gifts onto the carriage. "If the snow gets too heavy later, we can stay at our in-laws' house for the night. There's no rush to come back."
"Yes, Mother, I understand."
Thus, Li Erxiong and Li Ersao, along with Li Sanlang, Xiao Silang, and Xiao Wulang, left the Li family and drove their carriage out of the city.
Li's mother watched from the doorway as Li's second brother drove the carriage around the corner until it was out of sight. Then she turned around and looked at Li's third sister and Lu Zhu'er, who were happily eating sesame-sprinkled cakes. Li's mother asked Li's third sister, "Your second brother drove the carriage away. What are you going to do today?"
Should we send the tenth prince out to call another carriage?
That day, "Looking up at the sky, I'm afraid it'll keep raining. Will anyone be able to drive on the streets?"
Li San Niang chewed on the sesame cake and found it increasingly fragrant. Before she could reply to her mother, the usually taciturn Lao Shi stepped forward and said to Li's mother, "It's alright, there are still carriages in the guild. They're parked in the backyard right now, so it won't delay San Niang from going out."
"Alright, Qiuxiang and Lao Shi, you two go to the kitchen and get some pancakes to eat. You'll have to wait until noon for Third Aunt to call you."
"Mother."
"How old are you? You only know how to eat with Luzhu, don't you know to invite Qiuxiang and Lao Shi to eat?"
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